We need a better Internet in America

[Coleman Kane]

Thanks Ric,

You just made a FreeBSD user's morning.


On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:14 -0400, Ric Werme wrote:
> From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <greg at freephile.com>
> 
> > I hope this message is considered "on topic" because 
> > a) the Internet was/is built on Linux
> 
> You just lost all of us who worked on ARPAnet.  Of course, there aren't that
> many of us, so maybe it doesn't matter.  The follow on to the ARPAnet, the
> Internet, started around 1980 with the publishing of the core Internet
> protocols and porting classics like the new (1973) FTP and Telnet protocols
> and new ones like NFS and the rest of ONC-RPC.  Linux didn't appear until 1991
> or so. I was "off net" in 1980, but I think BSD Unix is to the Internet as
> TENEX and PDP-10s were to the ARPAnet.  Linux and Windows came along later.
> 
> In V2, you might try dropping the "was".
> 
> Sorry, I guess that wasn't the point you were making....
> 
>   -Ric
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